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Tristram Hunt is a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central.

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Former Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 23 January 2017 — Resigned

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @TristramHuntVA

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Tristram Hunt campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Education
• Department for Education
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• Transport
• Teachers: Training
• Capita
• Tyres
• Free Schools
• Vocational Training

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Education ( 7 Oct 2013 to 14 Sep 2015)
• Shadow Minister (Education) (16 Apr 2013 to 7 Oct 2013)
• Member, Parliamentary Privilege (Joint Committee) ( 3 Dec 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Parliamentary Privilege (Joint Committee) ( 3 Dec 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art ( 8 Nov 2011 to 5 Nov 2013)
• Member, Draft House of Lords Reform Bill (Joint Committee) (23 Jun 2011 to 26 Mar 2012)
• Member, Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 31 Oct 2013)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Mark Fisher
• Robert Cant
• Barnett Stross

Future MPs in this constituency

• Gareth Snell
• Jo Gideon
• Gareth Snell

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Criminal Finances Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
• Legislation (Territorial Extent) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Leaving the Eu: Security, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice 18 Jan 2017

  It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bath (Ben Howlett). I rise to speak in this debate and to make my final contribution in this House before I leave to take up the post of director of the Victoria & Albert museum, the world’s greatest museum of art, design and performance. It has been a profound privilege to represent Stoke-on-Trent Central in this Chamber for six and a...

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Social Mobility 23 Nov 2016

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2016 to Question 50295, what methodology her Department plans to use in selecting the next four opportunity areas; and when she expects an announcement to be made on the location of those areas.

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Social Mobility 23 Nov 2016

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2016 to Question 50295, how her Department plans to assess the effectiveness of opportunity areas in improving social mobility; and what performance measures such an assessment will include.

More of Tristram Hunt’s recent appearances